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After a successful crowdfunding campaign, Award-winner Tanya Moberly prepares to record live CD. By: Stephen Mosher Sep. 16, 2023 Multiple Award winning Performer/Producer/Director Tanya Moberly will appear at legendary nightspot Don’t Tell Mama this fall to perform and record two shows that are audience favorites: I LOVE NEW YORK SONGWRITERS PART I AND PART II. […]

August 28, 2023 Simi Horwitz BistroAwards.com’s critic Gerry Geddes, also a cabaret director, has worn many hats that include writer, lyricist, teacher, and theatre director. He has no doubt about the major challenge cabaret directors face today.  Put simply: it’s the diminished values of the culture at large. More specifically, it’s what’s viewed and promoted […]

Aug 15, 2023 By Andrew Poretz … It’s impossible not to notice the performer Marnie Klar the moment she walks into any room. Ms. Klar looks like a high-fashion model (her bio unsurprisingly bears this out) with the high cheekbones of a cover girl. When this statuesque beauty opens her mouth, her dulcet tones complement […]

Kickstarter campaign hopes to raise funding by September 6th. By: Stephen Mosher Aug. 09, 2023 For twenty-six years Tanya Moberly has been a pillar of the cabaret community, beginning her career as a performer before making progressions into other corridors of the industry like directing and producing and, eventually, operating as booking manager at the […]

Jul 18, 2023 By Sandi Durell . . . With Jon Weber on piano and Steve Doyle on bass at Don’t Tell Mama, July 15th was the last album celebration date with Floridian Margo Brown flying up for the occasion, revealing how and why love has such special meaning in her multi-faceted, creative life. She […]

July 8, 2023 NiteLife Exchange Cabaret Reviews By Scott Barbarino***The CD Forever Me With Love was brought to my attention in a phone call with Ralph Lampkin, whose recent passing will be felt deeply by all who knew him, but especially by the clients he tirelessly championed. Knowing what an incredible ear he had I […]

Goldie Mines Gold… By: Bobby Patrick Jun. 11, 2023 Heigh-Ho, My Merry Rainbow Tribe! Bobby Patrick your RAINBOW Reviewer here… Grabbing that silent T from cabareT to bring you all the Tea! Wednesday night’s 7 PM show of Goldie Dver’s BRIDGES was a reminder to your rainbow reviewer that the Dvine Dver is a cabaret […]

Jun 10, 2023 By Andrew Poretz … MAC Award-winning vocalist Goldie Dver opened her new show, Bridges, at Don’t Tell Mama this week. The show is partly in support of her debut album, the newly released Sweet Beginning. Goldie, a performer with expressive eyes and a warm, mezzo voice, has a long history in the […]

Shannon Hunt | May 21, 2023 Margo Brown Forever Me with Love Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, May 10, 2023 Reviewed by Shannon Hunt Margo Brown Gliding to the stage in her shimmering black gown, Margo Brown instantly transported the room at Don’t Tell Mama to a 1940s supper club. The glamorous chanteuse has just released […]

May 20, 2023 By Andrew Poretz … Margo Brown returned to her cabaret home base at Don’t Tell Mama recently for two nights with her newest show, Forever Me with Love, which celebrated the release of her album of the same name. The lovely, vivacious performer flew up from Florida. This writer reviewed Margo’s 2022 […]